Month: September 2003
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Children's Rights (Amy Margolies, Nate Andersen)
INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Professor Nadya Nedelsky reaction essays prepared by students AM, NA
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Universal Rights versus Cultural Relativism: A Continuing Debate
“Gender” JU, SL Part I: Feminism and Female Genital Mutilation This section begins by reformulating the conflict between the objectives of human rights treaties, on the one hand, and customary laws and practices as well as religious beliefs on the other within the context of gender-related issues. As a starting point for discussion, Tracy Higgins […]
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Universalism and Cultural Relativism
Discussion Group 9 Reaction Paper: This section further discusses whether rights are universal or relative in character. Advocates of universality argue that certain rights such as equal protection, freedom of speech and religion are common and thus can transcend cultures. In opposition, cultural relativists argue that rights and rules of morality are encoded in a […]
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Response to The Notion of “Rights”: Origins and Relations to Duties
Group 8: AT, AW, Yongho Kim Response to The Notion of “Rights”: Origins and Relations to Duties. Monday, September 22nd. Chapter 5 provides a close-up of the notion of rights and their historical evolution. The notion of rights emerged as a refining of the concept of ‘natural law’ coined in the 17th and 18th centuries […]
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Film Review of Lumumba
Film Review of Lumumba Anthropology 258: African Societies Yongho Kim I have seen Lumumba as a traditional film containing the ten years before and immediately following the independence of DRC. In other words, the fact that the theme was based in Africa did not tweak the way in which the narrative itself was presented, as […]
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ICESCR
INTL254 Introduction to International Human Rights Professor Nadya Nedelsky reaction essays prepared by students HM, CH, AP Response to ICESCR